Rapid Prototyping

As your product’s design evolves from concept to prototype, GVL’s FDM plays an important role in testing. FDM prototypes use industrial-grade thermoplastics, allowing you to test in real-world environments and make decisions that have a dramatic effect on the cost to manufacture your product.

GVL 3D prototypes produced from any of the various production-grade thermoplastics on our 3D prototyping system are virtually identical to the final product. They have the same geometry, accuracy and production-grade thermoplastics. Using our system to build functional prototypes allows you to find problems and prove out design early before the costs of change, development and production rise. This approach of testing form, fit and especially function puts you much closer to a higher-quality end product.

Why manufacture prototypes with 3D Production Systems?

Low-Volume or Custom Plastic Manufacturing & Tooling

GVL’s experienced Product Development Team can assist you with production tooling or machining. For low-volume part production or manufacturing tools—such as jigs, fixtures and tooling masters—the benefits are too great to ignore.

Reduce Time

Accelerates product development by bringing ideas to life faster and less expensively

Enables you to correct errors early in the design process and before the tooling stage

Reduces time-to-market

Reduce Cost

Save tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars by eliminating machining or tooling costs for manufacturing tools or low-volume production parts. Just-in-time inventory frees your warehouse and allows you to make design changes inexpensively.